| Show POLITICAL IN FRANCE THERE are prospects that the farmers alliance will very soon have a precedent of some importance on theother side of the atlantic for their scheme of government loans to farmers at low interest and long time payments the peasant proprietors of france have been raising a clamor for loans from the government Rovern ment similar to that of th the e farmers of kansas during a year past and M constans minister of the interior is a showing a disposition to yield to their demand at the reassembling of the chamber of deputies he intends to introduce a measure looking to the organization of societies similar to our building and loan associations the funding of these institutions to be backed by the state this to be sure will not be a direct government loan but it will amount to that before the business to is perfected the motive behind M constans constana philanthropic action has not even the pretense of economy it is politics pure and simple indeed he says as an much in his explanation M Cou constana stans appears to be a practical statesman after the order that prevails more or lose less in this country he holds firmly to the theory that the government to is run by votes and it is the votes he be proposes to get at any hazard by this government loan scheme he hopes to quiet the discontent that since the palmy days of boulanger has been hanging banging like a cloud over the peasant population the socialist element of th the e manufacturing districts which was also in much doubt for a season whether boulanger was not greater than the republic he hopes to win over to the side of the government by a sort of groans pension measure which will also occupy the attention of the coming assembly with very many of such schemes on the legislative docket we might have cause to fear for the future of the french republic such a fantastic policy is not the best beat of a ce certificate of strength or durability at least that is the way it looks in this country when statesmen of national influence show signs of giving ear to it in france it may not be so bad the average frenchman is much more of a child than the american voter which undoubtedly justifies more than in our case the admission of childish fads fade into the policy of government that thai such a political monkey as boulanger should be so extensively mistaken for a statesman to is evidence that fantastical things are still a mighty power in the french imagination so that the only real regret or apprehension there is for americans connected with the pension and money loaning schemes of M constans is the possibility that our own loan and pension cranks may receive from it some encouragement for the prosecution of their fantastic ideas |
